CLEAN AIR ACT

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Comptroller Questions Graduation Rate

clipped from www.nytimes.com Comptroller Questions Graduation Rate By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ The New York City comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., released a report on Tuesday suggesting that the city’s graduation rate was inflated, saying he had found instances where it appeared schools had wrongly changed student grades and improperly awarded credit. But Mr. Thompson, a candidate for mayor, did not point to any conclusive evidence of manipulation, saying only that a lack of oversight, coupled with intense pressure to push up the graduation rate, created the potential for abuse. And he acknowledged that, by and large, the schools examined in his report were awarding diplomas only to students who had met graduation requirements. Still, Mr. Thompson cautioned, the city was not monitoring students’ records scrupulously enough and the record-keeping system was disorganized and prone to inaccuracy.

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